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The Summer of Her Life

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An edition of Der Sommer ihres Lebens (2017)

The Summer of Her Life

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As Gerda negotiates the degradations of old age and the indignity of being cared for by strangers, the past begins to seep into the present. Memories sweep over her. She remembers her life as a bespectacled schoolgirl, bullied for being smart. She remembers her ambition to enter the closed and overwhelmingly male field of astrophysics. And she remembers, most powerfully, that one summer – the summer of her life – during which she would be forced to make the most difficult decision of all: between her career and the love of her life.

The Summer of Her Life is a poetic, touching and profound graphic novel that grapples with questions that are too often left unasked. What is it like to spend your twilight years in a home? How do you know whether you’ve made the right choices? And what does it mean, in the end, to be happy?

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SelfMadeHero
Language
English
Pages
80

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Subjects

Old age, fiction, Feminism in literature, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Female Protagonist, Happiness in fiction, Quality of life, Retired women, Comic books, strips, Older women, Memory, Happiness

Times

1961-1970, 2021-2030
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7 May 2020, SelfMadeHero
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De zomer van haar leven
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2018, Delcourt
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2017, Reprodukt
Hardcover in German - Originalausgabe, 1. Auflage
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London, UK

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
741.5

Contributors

Translator
John Reddick

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
80
Dimensions
29.59 x 19.81 x 1.65 centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL29455506M
ISBN 10
1910593788
ISBN 13
9781910593783
OCLC/WorldCat
1178775912
Deutsche National Bibliothek
121975904X

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Work Description

Die alte Gerda steht am Fenster des Seniorenheims und schaut in die Sterne. Lange hat sie die Frage aufgeschoben, jetzt sucht sie eine Antwort darauf: Hatte sie ein glückliches Leben? Und während sie versucht, den Alltag im Heim zu meistern, denkt sie zurück, an ihre Jugend in den 1960er Jahren; ihre Begeisterung für ein Fach, in der sie als Frau schief angesehen wurde, die Astrophysik; die harte Wahl, die sie damals treffen musste, in jenem Sommer ihres Lebens: zwischen ihrer Liebe zu Peter und einer Karriere im Ausland...

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